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I'd also love to see a new ggplot2 geom or theme that plots either Australia as a whole (incl. Tas) or as an exploded view.

The first of those seems well-covered for the USA. The latter, well, that's left as an interesting option.

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Here's the data to go with that. But it's the current boundaries as opposed to boundaries over time (remember when Qld was part of NSW?)

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The pedestrian sensors of Melbourne Open Data portal (https://data.melbourne.vic.gov.au/Transport-Movement/Pedestrian-Counts/b2ak-trbp) could be a good one to get packaged in, if the JSON api can be utilized.

And it would be good to make a different animation using R as an alternative to what is shown on the web site.

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@dicook sources like that would be very useful as 'cool things to plot on a map'. I have in mind something similar to the LocationSA Map Viewer (though not necessarily interactive) with a variety of plot-ready data sets and a consistent mapping scheme.

I'm working on a similar thing with vehicle traffic in Adelaide with leaflet/shiny myself and nearly have the point-to-point route code sorted so I can overlay routes taken (correlated bluetooth captures at traffic lights).

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@jonocarroll are you suggesting that I list this as a separate topic? that it doesn't fall under what you were thinking for this issue?

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@dicook not at all, that repository looks to have some good data sets that could very well be included in my propsal, that pedestrian one in particular.

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excellent! looking forward to this!

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Brisbane's Open Data (http://data.brisbane.qld.gov.au) program is getting underway and I know they are looking for suggestions for data to provide, so they will be interested in trying to provide anything city specific as well.

There are some Brisbane based datasets available, such as:

• Ferry information - position, schedule etc (near realtime)
• Traffic Intersection data - flow rates (near realtime), unfortunately this is missing some meta data at the moment, such as which intersection is which
• Public art, park equipment and other static information.

(Disclaimer: I work for them)

-Daniel

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Looks like raster::getData already has the shapefile retrieval bit covered pretty well...

Cheers for that, Adam!

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Great to see these data, but where is the metadata a la #11 and #18?
looking forward to working on this in the near future.

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